Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by jstanley on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:02AM
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It's not OK to kill civilians in Pakistan regardless of what the Pakistani government may or may not privately think about it.
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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by throwaway5752 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:09AM
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But that's not what's happening. Pakistani militants have planned and executed attacks on US citizens in the US and Afghanistan. Bin Laden lived there and coordinated from northern Pakistan for a decade after 9/11. The operations are targeting criminals who have committed and conspired to commit murder, not an indiscriminate campaign of murder against random citizens of Pakistan. Many innocent Pakistani people (and a Pakistani PM) have been killed by these groups. It's not morally cut and dry.
Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
by black_puppydog on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:19AM
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From wikipedia (see above):
"the US policy of considering all military-age males in a strike zone as militants"
In other words: even IF you assume that killing someone because they're "militants" is automatically okay, the people "pulling the trigger" barely ever know who they're killing, yet they retroactively count them as "probably bad enough to be droned".
John Oliver had a good segment on the issue: